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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. Since the killing, there has been a marked increase in probing for vulnerable servers – focused on industrial control systems in facilities in both the Middle East and North America.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. One branch of this new class of attacks has focused on industrial control systems.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

GB Impact Energy Services Source New Engineering Canada Yes 52,707 Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office Source New Public USA Yes 52,567 Maximum Research Source New Professional services USA Yes 52 GB Terago Source New Telecoms Canada Yes 45 GB Zivilgeometer Source New Engineering Austria Yes 41.83 GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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Hidden Biases in Cybersecurity Reviews – And How to Use Them

eSecurity Planet

The survey should have representation from categories such as: Company size: small to large Industry vertical: healthcare, energy, etc. Organization type: corporate, education, utility, non-profit, government International regions: Asia, South America, North America, etc.

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Weekly podcast: ICS attacks, Reddit and SIM swap arrests

IT Governance

This week, we discuss new research into attacks on industrial control systems, Reddit’s recent breach, and an apparent crackdown on SIM swap fraud. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 10 August. Here are this week’s stories. That’s increasing risk for people who operate those types of systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Perhaps no legitimate discussion of Industrial Control Systems can be had without discussing Stuxnet.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Cyber Ranges

ForAllSecure

The governments of the world wanted the quick and agile minds of children who could think three dimensional -- and without all that moralizing about killing, you know, space aliens. So you take like signatures which would be indicative of say a foreign government and you say this is an attack by x. So it's a cat and mouse game.